Complicaciones más frecuentes en pacientes de UCIN y su relación con la muerte neonatal en el Hospital General Guasmo Sur, entre enero y octubre de 2019.

Abstract

Neonatal mortality is the main cause of infant mortality in the world and is determined by multiple factors, both maternal and neonatal. Prevention lies in family planning, early detection of pathologies, pharmacological and surgical treatment at the ideal time; to avoid the morbidity and mortality of live births. We carried out a cross-sectional, observational and descriptive study of prevalence, between January and October 2019 of patients who presented complications for which they were admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care area at the General Hospital Guasmo Sur, from which a universe of 2829 patients, so that 224 met the inclusion criteria, where it was estimated that the most frequent complication related to neonatal death is sepsis, representing 53.12% of the sample, on the other hand 53 patients with a equivalent of 23.66% died due to hypoglycemia, debuting as a second complication. Among other complications, hyaline membrane disease with 19 deaths, representing 8.48%. Additionally, the age group that was most affected were extreme premature, despite the fact that they only corresponded to 3 of the 224 cases, representing 1.33% of the sample. The ratio of sepsis and neonatal death is 53.12% in patients admitted to the NICU area at the General Hospital Guasmo Sur, during the period of January and October 2019.